Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Tampa Police are investigating a shooting that occurred early Saturday morning and left a 14-year-old boy wounded. Police said Jontavious Gainous, 14, was sleeping in the rear bedroom of the house at 8510 North 15th Street when the shooting began about 5;25 a. m. An 8-month-old baby, 2-year-old child, and a 4-year-old child were sleeping […]

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BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer Antoinette Glover has always been in favor of law enforcement officials doing whatever it takes to get drugs out of our communities. But, during a trip to a store with her grandson, she was shocked and angered by what she saw inside. “I saw a huge display case […]

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BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor On Monday afternoon, a Hillsborough County graduating senior was surprised. He learned that he was the recipient of a $10,000 scholarship award. School board members Candy Olson and Doretha Edgecomb were on the campus of Middleton High School for the presentation. Although Abraham Tejeda knew that he had […]

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BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor Last Friday, a Circuit judge in Sanford, Florida set a $150,000 bond for George Zimmerman. Zimmerman was charged with the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who was walking home from the store when he was shot and killed in February. Some readers shared their opinions about the judge […]

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RIVERVIEW —Just as they did at the county championships, the Plant High girls and boys track squads dominated the distance races and scored plenty of points elsewhere to sweep the team titles in Wednesday’s Class 4A-District 6 meet at Leto. Pictured: Tampa Bay Tech’s Deonte Williams (left) edges Plant’s Antonio Crawford to win the 100-meter […]

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S Ron Girault and RB Robert Hughes have been signed to the Tampa Bay Buccaners. Girault, who played for coach Greg Schiano at Rutgers, entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with Kansas City in 2008. Most recently he played for the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League. Hughes entered the league […]

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One of the first players to sue the NFL over concussions and head injuries has committed suicide. Ray Easterling, a defensive back for the Atlanta Falcons in the 1970’s, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Richmond, Va., on Thursday. He was 62. Easterling was a top performer in the secondary for […]

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During Sunday afternoon’s Lakers home game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, we saw a side of Metta World Peace (a.k.a., Ron Artest) that we haven’t encountered in quite some time. World Peace elbowed James Harden hard in the side of the head. Harden went to the ground immediately, and Metta was immediately and rightfully ejected […]

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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Veteran safety Brian Dawkins is retiring from the NFL after 16 seasons. Dawkins posted the news on his Twitter account Monday, thanking the teams he played for, his coaches and teammates and fans. Dawkins spent his first 13 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles and his last three with the Denver Broncos. He […]

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